TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The case of evidence destruction by two police officers who were also former KPK investigators, Roland Ronaldy and Harun, resurfaced. The issue came up again after Indonesialeaks revealed that there was a security video footage of the destruction.
In October last year, KPK supervisors said that Adj. Sr. Comr Roland and Comr. Harun were proven to have destroyed evidences obtained by the antigraft body. They erased and torn off several pages of the financial records of two companies owned by Basuki Hariman. The ledger listed a number of personal payments to private and institutional accounts, allegedly paid as a bribe to secure the company's beef exports.
Below is the timeline of what happened during the course of the alleged practice of evidence destruction.
April 7 2017
Roland and Harun allegedly removed 15 pages from the financial records of two companies belonging to Basuki Hariman: PT Impexindo Pratama and PT Aman Abadi Nusa Makmur.
April 2017
Roland and Harun were reported to KPK internal supervisors for tampering with and damaging the evidence of bribery.
October 13 2017
KPK declared Roland ad Harun as guilty and handed them to the police—discharging them from KPK—in hopes that the police would prosecute them.
October 27 2017
A telegram from the police said that Harun had been promoted, serving as a mid-rank officer in the Metro Jaya Regional Police.
March 8 2018
Another telegram from the police said that Roland had been promoted as Chief of the Cirebon Police Resort.
October 8 2018
Indonesialeaks, an independent platform for public informants, reopened the case. Roland, who was interviewed by Indonesialeaks, declined to comment on the case. National Police Chief, Gen. Tito Karnavian, whose name was mentioned in the destroyed evidence, also refused to comment.
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